"There is nothing but the sword!"

Urban walked slowly down the corridors of the Cathedral of the Light, Bynum's words echoing in his ears repeatedly!

"Is there nothing but the sword?...... So, at the cost?" Urban sneered, a deep self-deprecation on his face.

He thought of the past!

Twenty years ago, Urban was a young soldier in the Imperial Army. Because of his obsession with kendo, he left the army and led the art master to worship a great swordsman who lived in a secluded mountain village.

A few years later, he reached the end of his master's life's achievements and also became a great sword master.

But his end is more than that, his goal is to achieve the saint of the sword.

That year, Master was seriously ill.

It was a snowy winter, and before he died, Master entrusted his daughter, who was Urban's younger sister, to Urban. Urban hesitated, he thought that he had nothing but a sword in this life, and he was bent on pursuing the pinnacle of the sword, and he did not want to be bound by that family. But thinking of his master's kindness and seeing his sister's anxious gaze, his heart softened and he agreed.

Urban saw a faint joy in the sadness in the eyes of his junior sister. It was the only time since Master was seriously ill that he had seen his sister look happy.

After taking care of the master's aftermath, he decided to travel to the mainland to find a way to break through the Holy Order.

Seeing the disappointed gaze of his junior sister, Urban remembered the promise that the master had made before his death, but his obsession with the sanctification of kendo still made him insist on leaving.

However, before leaving, he swore to his sister that no matter whether he could advance to the Holy Rank or not, he would come back to marry her in three years.

He vividly remembered that the day he left, the snow was unusually heavy. After walking a long way in the snow, he stood on a mountain, and when he looked back at the small mountain village, he found that his sister was still standing in the snow at the entrance of the village, looking at him from afar.

Three years later, he reneged on his promise and did not return to the small mountain village. Because he still hadn't broken through the Holy Rank, he had nothing in his heart except the sword. The obsession with the sanctification of kendo has made him forget his former vows.

Spring goes and spring comes, and another year passes.

This year, he finally broke through the Holy Rank. As soon as the obsession disappeared, he suddenly remembered the oath he had made in front of his junior sister, so he hurriedly embarked on the journey back to the small mountain village.

When he returned to the small mountain village, it happened to be another snowy winter. However, he couldn't see the idiot figure again in the snow at the entrance of the village.

At the back of the small mountain village, next to the master's grave, a new tomb was added, and it was his junior sister who was buried.

From the mouths of the villagers, he learned what had happened. Half a year ago, a group of bandits gathered in the mountains and forests near the small mountain village. When the gang of thieves came to the small mountain village to plunder, some thieves saw the beauty of their sister and wanted to snatch her back to the cottage. The younger sister did not obey, and started a fight with the bandits, and after killing more than a dozen bandits, she was finally defeated by the bandits, and was harmed by the bandits, so she died.

His heart, at that moment, suddenly ached like a knife.

It snowed heavily that winter, just as he had left four years earlier.

He knelt down in front of his sister's grave and knelt in the snow for three days and three nights. At this time, he realized that in his heart, there was nothing but the sword!

On the fourth day, he got up from his sister's grave and left, came to the village of the bandits, and slaughtered the three hundred bandits in the village with a single sword!

Later, he returned to the Imperial Army, and with his unparalleled sword skills and outstanding military exploits, he rose through the ranks until he became the commander of the Sacred Radiance Crusade.

From that day on, Byzantium not only returned to an iron-blooded soldier, but also a true 'nothing but the sword'!

......

On the western outskirts of Catalland, there is a dense ginkgo forest that stretches for more than ten kilometers, and a wide avenue runs through it. Follow this avenue all the way to the west, bypassing the Demon Forest, and you will enter the western Byzantine region. The western part of Byzantium is gently undulating, mostly hilly, with three provinces of Maine, Gakison, and Huffington and a principality, Iberia, of which the province of Maine, Huffington and the Duchy of Iberia are more or less bordered by the Orcs' Beamon Empire.

By this time, the chill of late autumn had turned yellow the ginkgo groves in the western suburbs of Cataloland. A gust of autumn wind blows, and the ginkgo biloba leaves flutter and fall like butterflies, turning the earth into a sea of gold.

The autumn breeze brings a bleak coolness, but also a faint sense of sadness.

Beside the avenue, under a tall and straight ginkgo tree, Daniels led a fat and strong war horse and stood side by side with Urban.

Daniels has now been a member of the Radiant Crusade for three months. In the past three months, in addition to learning systematic military skills, he has been practicing swords with Urban. Due to his preconceived impressions, Urban didn't pay attention to Daniels at first, and after casually teaching him a few simple sword skills, he stopped caring about him, and Quan Deserved to fulfill his responsibilities as a master. However, Daniels did not lose interest in these simple sword skills, on the contrary, he practiced every move very seriously.

Daniels' focused look when he practiced his sword made Urban seem to see his teenage self in a trance. He secretly observed for half a month, and when he was sure that Daniels was not acting in front of him, but really had an obsession and attachment to kendo, he finally put away his perfunctory heart and began to seriously instruct the young man's swordsmanship.

Daniels was indeed very talented in kendo, and his guidance to Urban was often inferential, and his diligence and eagerness to learn made a big difference in Urban's opinion of him.

Urban gradually fell in love with this disciple, and later taught him what he had learned, and specially taught Daniels a secret method of Dou Qi cultivation to help him consolidate the foundation of Dou Qi cultivation, and no longer have to worry about artificially suppressing his own cultivation speed if the foundation is not strong.

Daniels didn't know that Urban had a bad impression of him, and that he was only taking him as an apprentice to deal with the trust of others. In his mind, he went from being an expulsion student from the Augustan Academy, a criminal who was filled with the army, to suddenly becoming a warrior of the Holy Radiance Crusader, a disciple of the Sword Saint, and such an experience was tantamount to stepping from hell to heaven. Therefore, his heart was full of gratitude to Urban.

Today is the day when he went to the northern grasslands to start his secret spy career, and when he was leaving, Urban specially came to see him off.

"I've never given you anything since you apprenticed, so I'll give you my saber when I say goodbye today!" said Urban as he unsheathed the cross-sword from his waist and handed it to Daniels.

Daniels reached out and took the cross-sword.

"Since I entered the Holy Rank, the swords I have used are all big road goods, and I will give you this sword, but I don't have to worry about you being recognized by my former colleague after you mixed into the Red Flame Fire Dragon Mercenary Regiment!

Daniels clenched the cross sword with both hands, knelt down on one knee, and said solemnly: "Master gives the sword, how dare the disciple dislike it! This time I go to the northern Xinjiang grassland, the disciple will live up to your expectations and will definitely complete the task you entrusted to me!"

"I'm waiting for your good news!"

"Teacher, please take care!"

"Take care!"

Daniels bowed to Urban again, then turned and stepped on his horse, galloping towards the distant northern steppes.